Laughing so hard I fell off my dinosaur, just kidding I don’t have a dinosaur, but if I did I’d name it Wilbur.
Windows XP, I have reinstalled it sooooooooo many times on my personal PC. The first thing I did was change to classic theme :point:
I wanted to use an uncracked WinXP license without paying for it. So ‘back in the day’ I reinstalled it every time the unlicensed copy would expire (every month?).
I use the silver theme on XP at work.
That theme is quite ok. I wonder why Microsoft did not make this one default.
The normal “bubblegum” theme is plain ugly.
But basically they’re all same right? different on color scheme.
Maby choosing the right colors makes all the difference.
I like the font and Elements in the Silver Style. very clear.
On Linux, there are many GUI styles. But few work seamlessly. (Maybe KDE Kubuntu or Mint) Often it just looks like a wild mix.
With XP I use the Zune Theme
With Windows 7 I just slide everything to black
HOW ON EARTH DID YOU DO THAT??!!
(Same here when I used Windows 7. Black makes desktops look cool)
I installed Linux Mint 13 KDE edition last night. E. P. I. C. W. I. N.
It looks Awesome. It was quicker to install (setup AND installation). It runs smoothly. It beats Windows in almost every way. (For games, it obviously doesn’t, but as a game developer, meh)*
Originally, I was going for Arch Linux, but I wanted to be able to get back to writing code quickly.
Just wondering, who here (if anyone) is a user of Arch?
- Also, with dual boot and Project WINE, there are plenty of ways to play Windows games.
Just say no to WINE (well if you can) and yes to VirtualBox.
I have one question for those you have Win8. Can I switch off the “start screen” so it will always go to the desktop? I hate the touch driven UI so much 
Also there are no side bar widgets anymore?
[quote]Just say no to WINE (well if you can) and yes to VirtualBox.
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I actually had some good results with WINE, although it’s a bit of a hit and miss.
Is running windows games in VirtualBox really a viable option?
If you google “zune theme” its a one click simple installation. you dont have to settle for the 3 default themes
I like green on my Windows 7 ;D.
It’s never even occurred to me to try.
My title bars aren’t black, they’re light grey, very readable. The default color scheme is “automatic” which tries to use a complementary color to your wallpaper. You can change it with the exact same interface: right-click on desktop, “personalize”, click “colors” at the bottom
Just got my fifth boot-up bluescreen, another one in ntoskrnl.exe … say what you like about win8’s responsiveness, I’ve not found it more stable.
Here are some likely solutions to that problem.
I haven’t had any problems so far, neither with Windows 7 nor Windows 8. Never gotten a Blue Screen in 3 years.
I can’t stand the whole, designed for your touch start menu… For that reason I need to find something to get my windows 7 theme back onto windows 8 or I stay on windows 7 
Until then, I’ll keep it on my VMware
Yeah Windows 8 is the trigger for me to start considering MacOS. I’m not there yet, but its not an outright denial anymore.
At the office we have two devs on Windows 7 (myself included) and 2 devs working on macbooks. We work on the same application using the same tools (Eclipse, Maven, other Java based dev tools). We do the same and yet… on MacOS everything just works a tiny bit better. Stuff loads a bit faster (in case of the OS: a whole lot faster), the application builds and packages a bit faster, dev applications boot a bit faster and take a bit less time to initialize to a point where you can start to use it, less resource usage, less conflicts, better tools built into the OS by default, neat backup system, …
I don’t like the pricing, but I can no longer ignore the quality.
Mac OS X is much more horrible than Windows 7. In fact Windows 7 seems to be just about perfect from a productivity desktop point of view. I’m sticking with it until Linux suddenly gets good (hah).
Cas